The Coronavirus Effect
by Samuel Webster Harris
This show was launched at the start of the Coronavirus pandemic. We discussed the unprecedented changes caused by the coronavirus with various thought leaders and industry insiders. The show helped us understand and navigate the changes going on around us. These are all key elements for the direction of my new show - "How to Change the World" - The history and future of Innovation. On my new show I tell the chronological history of innovation: The world's greatest technology breakthroughs and their innovators. The frameworks, mental models and forces that create global disruption. If you want to journey through the creation of our modern society from tree dwelling apes to technology wielding sapiens, you can find the new show wherever you get your podcasts. Out now: Spotify - https://open.spotify
Episodes
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Humanity's First Invention that Changed our Species and the World - The Story of Fire
How humans stopped relying on evolution and became the controllers of their own destiny. In this episode of 'How to Change the World,' Sam Webster Harris discusses the profound impact of fire on the evolution and societal development of humanity. From transforming our bodies and brains to...
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How to Rank the Impact of an Innovation
Is Brexit more important than Bitcoin? How do we rank Buddhism vs TikTok? The world changes, technology advances, but what really matters and how much? Sam explains the Innovation Richter Scale, a framework for understanding impact at every level of technology and what it means to society. --- If...
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What Blocks Human Innovation and Progress?
Timeless lessons from the Stone Age and how to build innovation into our systems and solve global problems. For 97% of human history, we barely had any technology. Innovation moved at a snail's pace because of 5 invisible forces shaping our world. Learn about how these forces still exist and what...
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A New Approach To Understanding How to Change The World
As we peer into the future, sometimes the best strategy is to look back into the past. The further and deeper we look, the more comprehensive our understanding of how technology and invention can shape the future. --- If you enjoy the episode and want more, Sam has launched his new show - "How to...
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UPDATE - How To Change The World: The history of innovation
Sam is launching a new show - How to Change the World: The History of Innovation Starting from the dawn of civilization. Each series will cover an era of humanity and each episode will cover an individual innovation and / or innovator telling their story and impact on society. In between…
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9. National Care Force
Charles Armitage Charles Armitage is the Co-Founder and Managing Director of Florence. Florence is a marketplace that connects care homes to nurses and care workers looking for extra shifts. Having started his career in the NHS, Charles entered the world of tech to help tackle some of the…
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8. The Care Industry
James Townsend, the co-founder of Mobilise, is on a mission to transform the way the UK's growing number of informal carers access support. James has over ten years of experience setting up and leading socially impactful organisations. He was formerly Teach First President, and set up the Church…
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7. Where Is Technology Heading
Eamonn Carey is the Managing Director of Techstars London. He's been an entrepreneur for most of his adult life - starting several companies in Europe and the Middle East - two successfully, others, less so. He's been an active angel investor in Europe, the US and Asia for the last five years -...
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6. How Do We Have Adventures?
I am an adventuraholic. As such being confined to one space is an unusual place to find myself. I am embracing my curious spirit and invite listeners to explore their minds and body and have their own personal journeys of adventure inside. When You Can't Go Outside, Go Inside We are used to being...
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5. When Life Gives You Lemons
About Dame Stephanie Shirley is one of Britain's leading philanthropists and has used her life to drive positive change in the world. Shirley empowered a generation of women in technology, giving them unheard of freedom to choose their own hours and manage their own workloads. She started her...
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4. Maintaining Empathy at a Distance
Kaitlin Ugolik Phillips is an author and technology researcher. We dive into her findings around human interaction online and how we lose empathy and cause each other extra stress. We talk about solutions for this and how we can control ourselves better to avoid being led down dangerous rabbit...
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3. Black Swan - The High Impact of the Highly Unexpected
About The 'Black Swan' is a book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. It demonstrates that unexpected events have the biggest impact on shaping the world. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/242472.The_Black_Swan The book explains how can we prepare for these evens. How to build a more resilient strategies....
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2. What Is All The Panic (buying) About?
After stores across the world first started running out of toilet paper, this quickly spread to empty shelves and epic queues as people rush to stock up before armageddon hits. This has resulted in a lot of further panic and strong emotions and angry words from those impacted. Still no one knows...
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1. An Introduction
An short episode introducing the podcast, the aims and topics to discuss and what you can expect to be hearing over the coming episodes. Sam gives a brief overview of the opportunity we have to reflect and the importance of focussing on the positive amongst all the terrible news. We also learn...
About this show
This show was launched at the start of the Coronavirus pandemic. We discussed the unprecedented changes caused by the coronavirus with various thought leaders and industry insiders. The show helped us understand and navigate the changes going on around us.
These are all key elements for the direction of my new show - "How to Change the World" - The history and future of Innovation.
On my new show I tell the chronological history of innovation:
The world's greatest technology breakthroughs and their innovators.
The frameworks, mental models and forces that create global disruption.
If you want to journey through the creation of our modern society from tree dwelling apes to technology wielding sapiens, you can find the new show wherever you get your podcasts.
Out now:
Spotify - https://open.spotify
Hosted by
Samuel Webster Harris
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